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Word: mikes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tugboater can pull apart the monopoly, the Morans can. The 86-year-old firm was founded in New York by Mike Moran, Ed's grandpa, as big and rugged as Ed is small and quiet. But it was Mike's son, Eugene F. Moran, 75, chairman of the board and Ed's uncle, who chugged the company into big business. An elegant dresser who shocked tugboaters by carrying a cane, he boasted that his tugs could tow anything anywhere. Said he: "Those big ones of ours could pull the Statue of Liberty down to the South Pole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tugboat Tycoon | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

Married. Gardner ("Mike") Cowles Jr., 43, publisher of the Des Moines Register & Tribune, chairman of the board of the Minneapolis Star-Journal & Tribune Co., president of Look; and Fleur Fenton, 33, Manhattan advertising consultant; both for the second time; in Stamford, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 6, 1947 | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

...when Bill Jack recently returned to work after a sick spell, he didn't like what he found. He could no longer pick up a mike, talk to his associates (employes) over Jahco's five-plant public-address system any time he wanted to. Now, his remarks had to be cleared by a newly hired public-relations expert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Trouble at Jahco | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

...censorship and the lack of experienced burlesque comedianship on the part of its actors. For "Rule A Wife And Have A Wife" is not great art--it is vulgar funny stuff which should be played (if it is not to be embarrassing) by those who instinctively understand it best--Mike Sachs, Bert Lahr, and Bobby Clark...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 12/14/1946 | See Source »

...final stanza, an inspired Jayvee team took to the floor, and, sparked by Bob Crotty and Mike Dehco, they put on a three minute basket barrage that netted twelve points and broke the game wide open...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jayvees Eke Out 54-47 Win Over Hub Coast Guard Five | 12/13/1946 | See Source »

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